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Airwallex

Engineering Director, Payments Platform

Singapore · Engineering · AI

Company
Supports businesses' cross-border payments, currency exchange, and card issuing on one platform.
Role
Oversees payment infrastructure strategy and technology across multiple countries.

What you will do

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Responsibilities

  • Owns the strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the payments platform, covering processing, routing, settlement, reconciliation, and partner integrations.
  • Manages, coaches, and grows engineering managers and senior technical talent across multiple squads.
  • Sets technical direction for mission critical payment systems and raises the bar on reliability, observability, security, and scalability.
  • Sets clear OKRs, runs multiple concurrent initiatives, and holds teams accountable for high quality delivery.
  • Partners with product, commercial, risk, compliance, and regional engineering leaders to align technology with business outcomes.

What you need

  • Has 10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years in engineering leadership.
  • Has managed engineering managers or leads while building high performing teams.
  • Has partnered closely with product management to define roadmaps and priorities.
  • Has deep technical fluency guiding architecture decisions for large scale distributed systems.
  • Has worked in a regulated industry such as fintech, financial services, or payments where correctness and data integrity matter.
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